A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Lu Xingchi calmly replied to the patrolling soldier, "I heard it too. There were a few gunshots. It must be coming from outside, right?"

Song Ce had already returned to his original appearance, looking completely uninjured. He chimed in casually, "Sounds like it's coming from outside the wall."

Song Ce had a large black backpack slung across his chest, like a turtle shell.

Besides the two of them, the small front hall of the building was empty, with nothing to hide.

The patrolling soldier looked around and seemed to find nothing amiss.

"Then it must be outside the wall. I must have misheard."

The soldier turned and walked down the steps.

Lu Xingchi looked displeased. After the soldier left, he stepped forward and yanked the backpack off Song Ce.

The backpack returned to being Bei Nuan in his hands, and she landed on the ground.

Bei Nuan defended herself, "It was an emergency. There was no other way, right?"

The patrolling soldier was already on the steps, and the floor was covered in corpses. Song Ce's chest was covered in blood. There were only a few seconds to react.

Bei Nuan quickly took Zhen Zhen and Huo Ren into her space and immediately transformed into a backpack, covering Song Ce's chest.

Fortunately, the carpet had a dark pattern, so the blood splattered when Huo Ren was killed wasn't too noticeable.

Song Ce, who had been pretending to be fine, finally couldn't hold on any longer. His face was pale, covered in cold sweat, and he sat back down on the ground.

He praised Bei Nuan, "You reacted so quickly. It's quite remarkable that you could come up with such an idea in such a tight situation."

Then he asked Bei Nuan, "You can actually turn into something as small as a backpack?"

Bei Nuan was about to proudly say that she could turn into even smaller things, but she caught Lu Xingchi's unfriendly expression and immediately changed her tune, "I just transformed randomly."

He probably wouldn't be happy to see her suddenly jump onto another man, even if she had turned into a backpack the moment she jumped.

Even if she had turned into a backpack the instant she jumped, he was still unhappy.

What's more, Song Ce had reacted extremely quickly. Most people would have been stunned to see a living person suddenly turn into a backpack, but he didn't. He even reached out to catch her.

Bei Nuan changed the subject to divert Lu Xingchi's attention. "Why did you come back with the knife first? Where's Du Ruo?"

"When he came back, he saw the people from the command headquarters eating tomato hand-pulled noodles in Luo Yuan. He insisted on eating with them. I was a little worried, so I came over first."

He was right to be worried, and he came back in time.

"Did you kill the mutated zombie? How many did you kill in total?" Bei Nuan's questions came one after another, not giving him time to think about anything else.

"There was only one this time."

It wasn't Lu Xingchi who answered Bei Nuan's question, but Du Ruo.

He was coming in from outside, so he must have finished his tomato hand-pulled noodles.

"There was only one mutated zombie outside Salun City, but its pearl was especially big," Du Ruo used his fingertips to indicate the size of a lotus seed. "You weren't there, and there wasn't even any water. I had to swallow it dry, and it almost choked me to death."

Lu Xingchi said, "Du Ruo and I later took a helicopter for another spin. There's definitely no second one nearby."

One mutated zombie was enough to organize such a large-scale attack, so its pearl must have been really big.

Du Ruo swallowed such a big pearl, so his ability to control the zombie horde must have increased greatly. He was now a veritable Zombie King.

After Du Ruo finished speaking, he suddenly saw Song Ce sitting on the ground, recognized him, and was very surprised. "What are you doing here?"

Then he looked Song Ce up and down, frowned, "You're injured? Did Huo Ren and his people do it again?"

Lu Xingchi didn't let them chat. "I already told Luo Yuan that we're leaving. Let's talk in the car."

He directed Du Ruo to help Song Ce up and told Bei Nuan to wake Jiang Fei and the others.

Although Huo Ren was dead, there should still be some of his men here. They had to leave quickly with the injured Song Ce.

The SUV left Salun City smoothly.

It was already dawn, and birds were chirping everywhere.

The mutated zombie was killed, Lu Xingchi and Du Ruo returned safely, the road wasn't blocked, the tires weren't punctured, and no one was sick or had a fever. On the contrary, they conveniently killed Huo Ren and saved Song Ce.

Bei Nuan thought, The flag has been successfully removed.

The only problem was that Lu Xingchi was still unhappy.

Du Ruo put Song Ce in the back row and carefully treated his wounds.

Bei Nuan leaned on the seat and looked back with a "Is he dying?" expression, but she was too embarrassed to ask directly.

Du Ruo was busy with his hands, but he noticed Bei Nuan's expression and comforted her, "Don't worry, the wound looks scary, but it's actually very shallow. There are no fatal injuries. As long as you're careful not to get infected, there shouldn't be any major problems."

Song Ce still had the mind to laugh. "They were all cuts from when they were interrogating me. Speaking of interrogation, I have to go get my bags."

After Song Ce entered the blockade, he no longer had the protection of the zombie horde. As soon as he realized that he was being targeted by Huo Ren's people, he hid his big bags.

That's why Huo Ren kept him alive.

Song Ce was intelligent, like a human GPS. He directed Lu Xingchi through the mountains that looked identical to Bei Nuan, and finally stopped in front of a mountain hollow.

He sat up halfway and drew a map for Lu Xingchi and the others, marking the precise location of the hidden bags.

Lu Xingchi put the map in his pocket and said to Bei Nuan, "Let out those few in your space."

He was talking about the few lying in the space.

They could bury them.

Bei Nuan let them out and lined them up on the ground, then searched them.

Zhen Zhen's silver pistol was cute, but it was probably a gift from Huo Ren, so Bei Nuan didn't take it. She put it in her pocket and put it away.

Besides a gun, Huo Ren had another thing—

The black satellite phone that Bei Nuan was very familiar with. It wasn't big, with an antenna sticking out diagonally, and a row of buttons under the screen, like an old-fashioned mobile phone from a decade ago.

Bei Nuan took the gun and the satellite phone before letting them go bury the bodies.

Lu Xingchi and the others left, leaving only Jiang Fei and Bei Nuan with Song Ce in the car.

Bei Nuan couldn't help but be curious. She took out Huo Ren's satellite phone and fiddled with it, seeing that there were many numbers in the address book.

However, the notes were very strange, such as "Pig," "Fat Sheep to Slaughter," "Useless," "Neighbor Lao Wang," etc. She didn't know who these people were.

After playing for a while, when Jiang Fei got out of the car to get some air, Bei Nuan couldn't help but ask Song Ce, "I've noticed that many people with abilities are reborn, so… have you been reborn too?"

Then she quickly added, "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

She didn't want to scare him away again.

Song Ce smiled, "You've saved me twice. It's okay to tell you. That's right, I have been reborn once."

In his previous life, when the zombie virus broke out, he gave all the research data he had to the company's executives. Then he discovered that the company's executives had no intention of handing it over to the Alliance. He was later silenced.

When he woke up again, he found that he had been reborn.

He was reborn on the night before the zombie virus broke out. He immediately ran away with his things, got on a plane, and planned to fly directly to the safe zone to hand over the data to the Alliance.

Who knew that by some twist of fate, the plane was stranded in S City.

Bei Nuan thought, so in the original book, there was no Song Ce who escaped to the safe zone with the data, nor was there Huo Ren who was constantly chasing him.

"Why wouldn't they give the data to the Alliance? Wouldn't it be better to sell it to the Alliance and make money if they didn't want to give it away for free?" Bei Nuan was a little puzzled. "If they used their vaccine to save the world, wouldn't that be beneficial to LBD's reputation?"

Song Ce smiled slightly.

"Bei Nuan, LBD is just an organization that is responsible for charity and non-profit scientific research. Its main purpose is to avoid taxes. It belongs to an international company with very strong capital called Tix. Tix spans many fields, and many of the products you are familiar with are actually owned by it."

"This virus outbreak is a disaster in our eyes, but in some people's eyes, it is an opportunity. Tix has been developing for so many years, and it is already a bit overwhelmed, like a heavy old car that needs to find an opportunity to make a comeback."

Bei Nuan was speechless, "But…"

Song Ce looked at her gently, "Do you know what the word 'capital' means? They have no conscience and only pursue profit maximization. If they are unwilling to hand over the data to the Alliance, it must be because it is not the most beneficial choice for them."

Bei Nuan was angry, "The whole world is collapsing, so many people are turning into zombies, and they are still considering their own profit maximization?"

Song Ce's eyes were dark and deep, staring at Bei Nuan, "That's normal. Even if the sky falls and the earth collapses, many people only consider their own profit maximization, right?"

Bei Nuan felt as if her thoughts had been exposed and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

But Song Ce suddenly said, "You're not. What's the benefit to you for saving me again and again?"

Bei Nuan thought, Of course, it's for the Saint Mother value.

It should be… for the Saint Mother value, right?

Jiang Fei came back and opened the car door. Song Ce stopped chatting with Bei Nuan and lay down again.

Not long after, Lu Xingchi and the others also came back, carrying Song Ce's big bags.

After putting the big bags in the trunk, Song Ce seemed to finally relax and couldn't hold on any longer. He fell asleep.

Carrying Song Ce and his important bags, Bei Nuan felt a little nervous for the first time.

"Where are we going next?" Bei Nuan asked Lu Xingchi.

"To Ye Ruo City." Lu Xingchi said, "That's the headquarters of the Alliance. All the Alliance's administrative agencies are there now. We'll take Song Ce there and hand him over to them."

Bei Nuan had just heard Song Ce's words and was worried, "Send him over to the Alliance's agencies? Is that really reliable?"

Lu Xingchi turned to look at Bei Nuan, "Don't worry, I have a way. Leave these things to me."

Since he said to leave it to him, Bei Nuan stopped worrying.

The SUV drove in the direction of Ye Ruo City.

Bei Nuan knew that in the book, the team entered the safe zone and went directly to a small city called Ge Ta City, which was also where the team was finally wiped out.

This time, in order to send Song Ce to the Alliance headquarters, they took a different route.

Even if it was different, the task should be coming to an end.

Bei Nuan looked at Lu Xingchi and then at the Saint Mother progress bar.

Because of killing Huo Ren and saving Song Ce today, probably because this matter was too important, the Saint Mother value increased more than before.

Now the progress bar was about to be full, and there wasn't much space left.

Xiao San's voice suddenly came into her mind.

"Bei Nuan, congratulations, you have finally successfully arrived in the safe zone, and your Saint Mother mission is about to be completed."

Bei Nuan quickly said, "I also have a lot of questions I want to ask you."

Xiao San smiled and replied, "Don't worry, I'll give you detailed guidance on the final stage of the Saint Mother mission after you enter Ye Ruo City."

He wouldn't say it now.

Bei Nuan glanced at Lu Xingchi next to her, stared out the car window for a while, and then closed her eyes and fell asleep.

When Bei Nuan woke up again, she found that everyone was sleeping, and only Lu Xingchi was still awake and driving, without even changing his posture.

"Aren't you going to stop and sleep for a while?" Bei Nuan asked him, "Aren't you sleepy?"

"Not sleepy, just a little cold." Lu Xingchi replied indifferently.

Cold? On such a hot day?

Bei Nuan quickly looked for clothes for him in her space.

But she heard him continue to say indifferently, "It would probably be better if I had a backpack hanging on my chest."

Bei Nuan thought that she had already slept, and this matter hadn't passed yet.

He was looking ahead, with no expression on his face, and she couldn't tell if he was still angry. The more he was like this, the more guilty she felt.

She didn't know how many more days she could spend with him.

Bei Nuan hardened her heart.

She lay down on the seat, crawled over the gear shift between the driver's seat and the passenger seat, and crawled in under his arm.

The moment she crawled over, she had turned into a fluffy gray koala, with only white fur on her belly and a pair of round, big ears.

She successfully reached her destination and hugged him in front of his chest like she was hugging a tree.

"Are you still cold?" she asked.

This was much better than a backpack.

Lu Xingchi paused for a full few seconds before uttering a few words, "A little better."

Bei Nuan deliberately rubbed her head against his chest, watching the neck in his open collar turn slightly red, thinking, He can't hold on anymore, one, two, three.

Sure enough, Lu Xingchi lowered his head and kissed Bei Nuan's fluffy ears.

"Turn into a human for me to see," Lu Xingchi said in a low voice, "Keep the ears."

Bei Nuan refused, "Turning into a human is too tall, it will block your view."

She couldn't play around like this just because there were no traffic police uncles on the road in the apocalypse. There would be a car accident.

"It's better to become smaller." Lu Xingchi suggested.

Bei Nuan thought for a while and really turned herself into a human, still clinging to him, but much smaller, with a pair of big ears covered in fluffy gray fur sticking out from her soft hair.

Lu Xingchi didn't say anything, but Bei Nuan felt like he had taken a breath.

"Smaller." he said.

Bei Nuan continued to shrink herself.

"This is the limit, I can't get any smaller." Bei Nuan declared.

She shrunk herself proportionally, and now she was only a few inches tall, not much bigger than a kitten.

It was no problem to stand on Lu Xingchi's lap, so mini, of course, it wouldn't block his view.

Everything around her became bigger after shrinking, and Bei Nuan found it very interesting, looking left and right.

After a while, she climbed up Lu Xingchi's shirt all the way, climbed to his shoulder, and then successfully reached the steering wheel along his arm. Finally, she stepped on the steering wheel and jumped to the platform above the center console under the front windshield.

Like a beautiful girl ornament on a car, she sat cross-legged, propped her head up with a pair of fluffy ears, and looked at Lu Xingchi.

Lu Xingchi made another request, "Make a tail for me to see."

"Do you have any common sense?" Bei Nuan said, "Koalas are also called tailless bears, of course, they don't have tails!"

"You're not really a koala," Lu Xingchi was unmoved, "Make one."

Bei Nuan sat still, "Even if I make a tail, you won't be able to see it, it's hidden in my pants, right?"

"Then make one that can be exposed outside the pants." Lu Xingchi paused, "Can't you even turn into a backpack? What's this little thing?"

He mentioned the backpack again, and Bei Nuan felt a little guilty. She reluctantly stood up and turned around.

A round, fluffy gray pompom really appeared outside the pants behind her butt.

Lu Xingchi pursed his lips, stretched out a finger, and poked her little tail.

The fluffy tail trembled.

Bei Nuan turned around to slap his hand, "Pervert."

She slapped him gently, and Lu Xingchi stopped poking her tail. Instead, he picked her up and put her in his chest pocket.

"Let me think, what else can I transform into." Lu Xingchi said.

He hadn't finished playing yet.

The pocket was soft, just a cloth bag, and it was difficult to stand. Bei Nuan carefully turned around, fearing that she would fall, and protested while clutching his shirt, "Lu Xingchi, I'm not your toy, okay?"

"Don't be so stingy." Lu Xingchi replied, "I wouldn't mind being your toy."

Suddenly, Du Ruo's groggy voice came from the back seat, "What are you two talking about? Why are you saying such dirty things?" Then he asked, "Huh? Where's Bei Nuan?"

The car was so small, there was no one in the passenger seat, and Bei Nuan had disappeared.

In a place he couldn't see, there was a flurry of activity.

Lu Xingchi leaned to the side of the passenger seat, blocking Du Ruo's view with his body.

When he sat up straight again, Bei Nuan was crawling out from under the seat.

She straightened her messy hair, "I'm here."

Du Ruo was confused, "What were you doing under the seat?"

"Uh…" Bei Nuan raised her hand to show Du Ruo.

She was holding Huo Ren's black satellite phone.

"I accidentally dropped this just now, and I crawled down to pick it up. It took me a long time to find it…"

Before she could finish speaking, the satellite phone in Bei Nuan's hand suddenly rang.

Bei Nuan was so scared that she almost threw it out of the car window.

Someone was calling. Was it looking for Huo Ren?

Bei Nuan calmed down and looked at the screen. There was indeed a call coming in, and the note displayed on it was "Stop Urging Me, You Nag."

Lu Xingchi also glanced at it, reached out and took the satellite phone from Bei Nuan, and pressed it.

He turned on the speakerphone.

A man's voice came from the phone, cold and icy, a very magnetic baritone.

"Huo Ren, are you planning to take a vacation at the blockade? Take Song Ce and come back to Ye Ruo City immediately."

The few people in the car looked at each other, and no one spoke.

The man on the other end was very alert and seemed to sense that something was wrong. He immediately hung up the phone.

Lu Xingchi returned the satellite phone to Bei Nuan. Bei Nuan took it and flipped through the call history.

Bei Nuan reported as she flipped, "This person has been contacting Huo Ren. He calls about every day or two, and sometimes more than once."

From the time of the Ninth Prison, Bei Nuan knew that someone had been directing Huo Ren on the phone.

Huo Ren also often said that he was working for someone else.

Could the man on the phone be his boss?

Huo Ren was ruthless and crazy, but he was forced to run around in the infected area non-stop. She wondered what kind of person could control him.

Author's Note:

Lu Xingchi: System, can her ability be retained after marriage?

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